Pakistan has threatened to «obliterate» the Afghan Taliban amid the complete collapse of peace talks between the two neighboring countries. The Pakistani government said that negotiations held in Istanbul had ended without a solution, marking a total ...

DG ISPR confirms 206 Afghan Taliban and 112 Khawarij militants killed, warns India of severe response amid rising border tensions.

Relations between the two neighbors hit a low point this month, with fighting killing people on both sides of the border. At issue is a rise in militancy in Pakistan since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

Afghanistan faces near-total digital blackout after Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's directive dismantled the country's fibre-optic network infrastructure.

The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

The coalition led by the Christian Democrat Merz faces accusations of opening the door to the international legitimization of the Islamist regime, which Germany and its allies fought for two decades

India and Afghanistan are set to strengthen diplomatic engagement, with the Taliban regime appointing its first diplomat to New Delhi since 2021, a move that follows Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s landmark visit to India last month.

Vienna has so far refused to accredit Taliban-appointed diplomats. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He’s part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgo

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, Pakistan’s information minister said early Wednesday, accusing the Taliban government in Kabul of refusing to act against militants blamed for deadly cross-border attacks.